| 1 | Representative N. Thompson, Aubuchon, Williams, Grant, Richter, |
| 2 | and Hudson offered the following: |
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| 4 | Amendment to Amendment (555297) |
| 5 | Remove lines 184-251 and insert: |
| 6 | Chipola College, Daytona Beach College, Edison College, Indian |
| 7 | River College, Miami Dade College, Okaloosa-Walton College, Polk |
| 8 | College, Santa Fe College, and St. Petersburg College in |
| 9 | collaboration with the Florida College System Task Force. The |
| 10 | purpose of the pilot project is to recommend to the Legislature |
| 11 | an approval process for the transition of baccalaureate-degree- |
| 12 | granting community colleges to state colleges in order to meet |
| 13 | the employment needs of Florida, criteria for the transition of |
| 14 | institutions in the Florida College System to state colleges, |
| 15 | and a funding model for the Florida College System. |
| 16 | (b) With the approval of the community college's board of |
| 17 | trustees and continued compliance with the provisions of |
| 18 | subsection (3), a community college identified in paragraph (a) |
| 19 | as a participant in the State College Pilot Project may change |
| 20 | the institution's name and use the designation "state college." |
| 21 | An institution participating in the State College Pilot Project |
| 22 | shall not use the designation "university." |
| 23 | (3) Each institution identified in subsection (2) as a |
| 24 | participant in the pilot project shall: |
| 25 | (a) Maintain, as the institution's primary mission, |
| 26 | responsibility for responding to community needs for |
| 27 | postsecondary academic education and career degree education as |
| 28 | prescribed in s. 1004.65(6). |
| 29 | (b) Maintain an open-door admissions policy for associate- |
| 30 | level degree programs and workforce education programs. |
| 31 | (c)1. Require, as a condition of admission to upper- |
| 32 | division programs, successful completion of the college-level |
| 33 | communication and mathematics skills examination (CLAST), |
| 34 | established pursuant to s. 1008.29, unless the student has been |
| 35 | awarded an associate degree from a community college or a state |
| 36 | university. |
| 37 | 2. For purposes of a longitudinal analysis of the CLAST, |
| 38 | and notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, |
| 39 | administer the CLAST to each student admitted to an upper- |
| 40 | division program unless the student has previously achieved the |
| 41 | minimum scores that constitute successful completion of the |
| 42 | examination as established pursuant to s. 1008.29(4). The |
| 43 | institution shall report annually the test scores of each |
| 44 | student tested pursuant to the provisions of this subparagraph |
| 45 | and any exemption the student has been provided pursuant to s. |
| 46 | 1008.29(9) to the Florida College System Task Force until its |
| 47 | dissolution, to the State Board of Education once the task force |
| 48 | is dissolved, and to the Office of Program Policy Analysis and |
| 49 | Government Accountability. |
| 50 | (d) Continue to provide outreach to underserved |
| 51 | populations. |
| 52 | (e) Continue to provide remedial education. |
| 53 | (f) Comply with all provisions of the statewide |
| 54 | articulation agreement that relate to 2-year and 4-year public |
| 55 | degree-granting institutions as adopted by the State Board of |
| 56 | Education pursuant to s. 1007.23. |
| 57 | (g) Be prohibited from awarding graduate credit or |
| 58 | graduate degrees. |
| 59 | (h) Be prohibited from participating in intercollegiate |
| 60 | athletics beyond the 2-year level. |
| 61 | (i) Deliver the programs and services in providing |
| 62 | associate and baccalaureate degrees in a cost-effective manner |
| 63 | that demonstrates substantial savings to the student and to the |
| 64 | state over the cost of providing the degree at a state |
| 65 | university. |
| 66 | (4)(a) The institutions participating in the pilot project |
| 67 | shall collaborate with the Florida College System Task Force to |
| 68 | make recommendations to the State Board of Education, the |
| 69 | President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of |
| 70 | Representatives on specific issues that should be addressed in |
| 71 | the transition of a community college to a state college. Any |
| 72 | recommendations of the institutions participating in the pilot |
| 73 | project require approval by two-thirds of the participating |